Psychology (PSYC) 470

Overview

This three-credit course is designed to increase awareness of the framework and rationale for collaboration, the facilitating factors involved, and the strategies for implementation. The main emphasis of the course is on understanding collaborative consultation as a process allowing people with diverse expertise to work together to generate solutions for educating students with special needs in regular public school classrooms.

Topics covered in Educational Psychology/Psychology 470 include:

• key elements in school-based consultation
• consultation models and professional practices
• Problem-solving consultation
• communication and interpersonal skills
• legal and ethical issues
• consulting about students with social, emotional, and/or behavioral problems
• consulting about students with academic skills problems
• transition planning
• systems level consultation

Outline

EducationalPsychology/Psychology 470 is divided into nine units.

• Unit 1 Overview of School-Based Consultation
• Unit 2 Consultation Models and Professional Practices
• Unit 3 Problem-Solving Consultation
• Unit 4 Communication and Interpersonal Skills
• Unit 5 Legal and Ethical Issues in School Consultation
• Unit 6 Consulting About Students with Social, Emotional, and/or Behavioral Problems
• Unit 7 Consulting About Students with Academic Skill Problems
• Unit 8 Transition Planning
• Unit 9 Systems-Level Consultation

Evaluation

The final grade in Educational Psychology/Psychology 470 will be based on the completion of a Planning Exercise, the completion of three quizzes, the completion of the course project, and participation in the Discussion Forum. To receive credit for this course, you must achieve a grade of 50 percent or better on the course project, as well as an overall course grade of at least D (50 percent). In addition, you must complete all assignments to pass the course. The following table summarizes the evaluation activities and the credit weight associated with each activity.

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbook

Registration in this course includes an electronic textbook. For more information on electronic textbooks, please refer to our eText Initiative site.

A print version of the eText may be available for purchase from the publisher through a direct-to-student link provided on the course website; you can also acquire the textbook on your own if you wish.

Other Resources

The course materials include a reading file. All other course materials are online at the Course website.

Challenge for Credit Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows you to demonstrate that you have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university-level course.

Full information about Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the PSYC 470 challenge registration, you must achieve a grade of at least D (50 percent) or higher on both the research paper and the examination.

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

• Challenge for Credit Form